Entity · Contextual definition
Inara
A reference page linking a name, group, or concept to the materials that discuss it.
Goddess in Hittite traditions who plans the feast enabling the serpent’s defeat in the first Illuyanka account.
Text
Inara is a goddess appearing in the Hittite IlluyankaIlluyankaThe serpent opposed by the storm god in two Hittite narratives preserved in CTH 321.Glossary · Click to read the explanation text. Its substantial surviving copies belong to the Hittite Empire period in the second millennium BCE and may preserve an earlier composition. [1]
In the first account she prepares a feast and enlists the human HupasiyaHupasiyaInara’s human helper in the first Hittite Illuyanka account, who binds the serpent after the feast.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. Her help links the storm god’s renewed victory with her relationship to the mortal helper, whose ending survives in a damaged passage. [1]
References and notes
- TITUS — CTH 321, German edited translation First account and editorial notes; German translation of the Hittite text. Return to the text ↑
Research history
Substantive changes are retained here. Minor copy edits remain in the internal operational log.
-
Substantive record update
Suggest a correction · Suggest a source for this record
Cite this record
IL Archive, «Inara», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/inara-hittite-goddess